Saturday, October 18, 2025

Christmas typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines

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JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines left at least 20 people dead and forced...

Israel’s embattled Netanyahu tries to fend off party rival

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JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday faced the first serious internal challenge to his decade-long rule as...

Trump warns of ‘carnage’ in rebel stronghold in Syria

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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is speaking out against the "carnage" involving thousands of civilians in a rebel stronghold in Syria. In...

Relief group: 216,000 have fled homes in northwest Syria

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BEIRUT (AP) — More than 200,000 men, women and children fled their homes in northwest Syria in buses, trucks and cars in recent weeks,...

Rwanda avoids US-style opioids crisis by making own morphine

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CARA ANNA and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the...

Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved

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JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that...

Gala Christmas Day in country for Queen Elizabeth II, family

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GREGORY KATZ and JON SUPER Associated Press SANDRINGHAM, England (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her close family spent a gala Christmas Day at her...

No Christmas at Notre Dame, as fire forces Mass into exile

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PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark...

Thousands mark Christmas in West Bank town of Bethlehem

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MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH and PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims on Tuesday flocked to the West Bank town of...

Putin says Russia is leading world in hypersonic weapons

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VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that...